SO 1478 - Cos over uncertain mint

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 2921

480 - 475ΚΩΙΟΝ

Images

Location/history

	Sale(s)Sale(s) ^ᵖ:	NAC 59 (04/04/2011), no. 627 ; Triton 12 (2009), no. 328 ; NAC 2 (1990), no. 200 ; Leu-M&M 28 (05/1974), Kunstfreund no. 165 ; Schlessinger 13 (1935); Hermitage, no. 1336
Private collection(s)Private collection(s) ^ᵖ:	W. B. R Montgomery collection ; Gillet collection

Overstriking coin

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ΚΩΙΟΝ Discobolus about to hurl disc. In left field, tripod. Border of dot

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Crab within incuse square with dotted borders.

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object.:

Cos

Ancient regionAncient region.

Caria

Modern countryModern country: Greece

AuthorityIdentifies the issuing power. The authority can be "pretended" when the name or the portrait of X is on the coin but he/she was not the issuing power. It can also be "uncertain" when there is no mention of X on the coin but he/she was the issuing power according to the historical sources:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. 480 toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.. 475

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.:	WeightWeight of the numismatic object (in grams). in grams: 16.4816.48 g <br />16,480 mg <br />	DenominationTerm indicating the value of a numismatic object. Examples: tetradrachm, chalkous, denarius.: triple siglos
		StandardStandard.: Persic

References

Coin referenceReference of the Coin:

Babelon, Traité II, 1740 and pl. CCCLXVIII 13., Boston 2016., BMC 9, Kunstfreund 165

Coin series referenceReference to coin series study:

Barron 19681Barron 1968, Group B, no. 13-18, O. D. Hoover2O. D. Hoover, Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), Sixth to First Centuries BC - The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6, Lancaster-London, 2010, no. 1299

Overstruck type

Description

ObverseInscription or printing placed on the obverse.:

ReverseInscription or printing placed on the reverse.:

Mint and issuing power

MintIdentifies the place of manufacture or issue of a numismatic object. ^ᵖ:

Ancient regionAncient region. ^ᵖ

Modern countryModern country:

AuthorityIdentifies the authority in whose name (explicitly or implicitly) a numismatic object was issued. ^ᵖ:

Chronology

FromIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context. toIdentifies the final date in a range assigned in a numismatic context..

periodTime period of the numismatic object.

Physical description

References

Coin type referenceReference to coin series study ^ᵖ:

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikesFrequency of overstrikes:		Level of confidenceLevel of confidence of the identification:
RemarksRemarks:

References

^ Barron, John Penrose (1968), "The Fifth-Century Diskoboloi of Kos", in Colin M. Kraay and Gilbert Kenneth Jenkins (éd.), Essays in Greek Coinage Presented to Stanley Robinson, Oxford, p. 75-89, pl. 8-10.
^ O. D. Hoover